Author | Arthur Sze |
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Cover artist | Eve Aschheim |
Language | English |
Genre | Poetry |
Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
Publication date | April 9, 2019 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 80 |
Awards | National Book Award for Poetry (2019) |
ISBN | 978-1-55659-559-2 |
OCLC | 1050955727 |
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LC Class | PS3569.Z38 A6 2019 |
Sight Lines is the tenth poetry collection by Arthur Sze. It was published by Copper Canyon Press in April 9, 2019.[1]
The collection won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry (USA).[2] Judges of the prize praised Sze's "quiet mastery which generates beautiful, sensuous, inventive, and emotionally rich poems."[3]
Publishers Weekly called it "finely crafted and philosophical".[4]
In her review for The New York Times, Tess Taylor wrote, "This is a poetry of assemblage, where violence and beauty combine and hang on Sze's particular gift for the leaping non sequitur."[5]
Florian Gargaillo of the Colorado Review praised Sze's philosophy represented through strikethroughs, writing, "It is this degree of self-questioning, this wariness of authority in himself and others, that makes Sze such a valuable poet for this moment."[6]